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Rescued people check their itinerary on a map displayed on the main deck of the Ocean Viking

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Sofian Philip Naceur</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">December 17, 2025</span>

Border externalization does not only entail police cooperation and the supply of equipment and training. It involves a multitude of additional measures and tools to fortify borders more broadly.

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Despite its isolation and the absence of nearby emergency services, the Megalo Seitani Beach in Greece continues to be a common landing point for immigrants.

Between Gaza and Greece: A Life in Exile

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Khalid A. & Emma Musty</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">December 10, 2025</span>

Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of Gaza’s cities and villages, paid for by the labour of Palestinians like Khalid, exiled from their home to make their own return possible, it will never be what was lost—it will be something new.

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A red piece of cloth acts as a wall to a makeshift cafe set up opposite a WFP cash distribution centre in the Kaya refugee camp.

The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Husam Mahjoub</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">October 15, 2025</span>

Kaya, Maban, South Sudan. A red piece of cloth acts as a wall to a makeshift cafe set up opposite a WFP cash distribution centre […]

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The river Drina, a natural border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, photographed through an apartment window.

The Woman Who Talks With the River

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Nidžara Ahmetašević</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">March 19, 2025</span>

She talks with the river about life in the city, herself, her kids, the past, the present, like with a best friend. When sad, she shares it with Drina. When happy, too. Drina is the first to know what is happening in her life. The river knows her fears, her dreams, her truths.

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A torn poster of Bashar al-Assad clings to the crumbling facade of a former regime Immigration Office in Qamishli, Syria.

The Changing Syria: Voices From the Ground

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Editorial Board</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">February 12, 2025</span>

The Arab Spring in 2011 being a distant memory in many of the countries engulfed by the protest wave, in Syria, the long road to freedom appears now significantly shorter than a few months ago.

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A Mediterrane Rescue Ship crew operating in pitch black darkness, approaching a small rubber boat packed with immigrants.

Our Way to See/a. The Transforming Landscapes of Central Mediterranean Migrations

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Fabio Gianfrancesco</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">February 4, 2025</span>

We see this politics of solidarity as part of an already ongoing form of struggle—one foremost carried on by people that we don’t save, but encounter in our rescuing initiatives.

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Tunisian immigrant merchants pack their car in Palermo port Italy.

Photo Essay: Heavily Loaded

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Eugenio Grosso</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">January 23, 2025</span>

Since the ancient times, when people started sailing, the populations living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea used to move in the Mediterranean basin to sell goods to their neighbours.

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Immigrant care workers protesting poor working conditions in Europe.

Invisible Borders, Vital Care: How Migrant Women Sustain Europe’s Aging Societies

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Gaia Guatri</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">January 15, 2025</span>

A group of migrant domestic workers united rallying for their rights. Holding banners with illustrated depictions of their labor to advocate for fair treatment and […]

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A survivor gazes at the Sicilian coast from the ship after over 15 days awaiting a Place of Safety.

Beyond Rhetoric: Migration is not a Threat

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Editorial Board</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">January 8, 2025</span>

November 5, 2022 : A survivor gazes at the Sicilian coast from the ship after over 15 days awaiting a Place of Safety. Despite 21 […]

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A drone image of a flooded IDP camp in Bentiu, South Sudan.

Photo Essay: Uncertain Land – Climate Change and Its Impact on The Internally Displaced People of South Sudan

<span class="nb-card__meta–primary">Christina Simons</span><span class="nb-card__meta-separator"></span><span class="nb-card__meta–secondary">July 24, 2024</span>

Since the escalation of conflict in 2013 and 2014, South Sudan has faced a significant rise in the number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs). Over the past six years, this number has continued to grow due to the climate crisis and extreme flooding in areas where people had resettled or were still displaced from the 2014 conflict.